This FAQ has not been updated in over two years. What are people using currently as a 1 TB drive in HD TiVos? Last I heard, the WD-AV-GP drives' "Intellipower" functionality was a problem. If WD drives are still the drive of choice, how does a lowly Mac user deal with the Intellipower issue?

What are the current AV drives of choice?

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Hmmm... Looks like I'd need WinMFS to do the supersize for the THD. Since I can't do that, what happens if I simply don't supersize? Will the jmfs'd drive work? Or is the whole purpose of jmfs over mfslive the supersizing? IOW, without WinMFS, I may as well stick with mfsLive. True or false?

JMFS does boot the first generation iMac I use for TiVo drive work. I'm doing a 160->2000 GB copy now.

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and go to mfslive.org and get v1.4 of MFS Live just to have it around.

I was mistaken; I do have 1.4.

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Hmmm... Looks like I'd need WinMFS to do the supersize for the THD. Since I can't do that, what happens if I simply don't supersize? Will the jmfs'd drive work? Or is the whole purpose of jmfs over mfslive the supersizing? IOW, without WinMFS, I may as well stick with mfsLive. True or false?

JMFS does boot the first generation iMac I use for TiVo drive work. I'm doing a 160->2000 GB copy now. I was mistaken; I do have 1.4.

jmfs supersizes Premieres because WinMFS can't.

(you can't use WinMFS or MFS Live on a Premiere because of some stuff TiVo changed)

Since jmfs is designed to supersize Premieres, it won't work on S3s. But WinMFS will.

WinMFS and MFS Live "exand" by adding another MFS partition pair.

comer figured out something by looking at other people who "coalesced" partitions and came up with jmfs which expands by adding a single MFS Media partition.

For some reason jmfs will also work on S3 HDs and HD XLs, though supposedly not the original S3. I have no idea why.

So if you only have a Mac, you can, theoretically, copy a Premiere drive to a bigger drive, expand into the rest of the space, and supersize, all with jmfs.

If you have an S3, you can use jmfs for the copy and expand part.

If later you find out a friend has a PC running WinMFS, you can, I'm pretty sure, use it to supersize the drive which jmfs has already expanded.

Is there somewhere I can get an iso of a Premier drive? Since I have no Premiers myself... Painfully slow, compared to mfsLive. I suspect that JMFS just dd's the entire 160 GB drive to the larger drive. No doubt.

The only .iso of a Premiere drive is a Premiere drive, and if you don't have a Premiere it's of no use to you unless you want to go into business selling upgrade drives, in which case you really should have a Premiere in which to test them.

I'm pretty sure jmfs uses

ddrescue

since it returns more info during the process than the Sphynx-like

dd

And yes, whether Premiere or S3 HD or HD XL, jmfs does a byte for byte copy before the expansion stage.

This morning my Tivo HD with a 10EAVS drive kinda died. I could watch the recorded shows with trick play (REW, FF, etc), but Live TV gave me problems, took a while for trick play to work, or didn't work. Last night, it rebooted on its own. It finally ended on the green screen.

So this afternoon, went to Best buy and got a 10EARX, on sale for $80 (saved $5). I put my original WinMFS backup I had stored away on CD and restored to the new drive. Swapped out the Tivo drive with the new and the software was on 11.0h. Connected to Tivo and it did not download the guide data, instead it got the 11.0k.

Maybe you did this already but did you run widdle on this drive? I think that you need to run this on newer WD drives or they will have issues with the warm restart as you mentioned.

Just a suggestion.

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This morning my Tivo HD with a 10EAVS drive kinda died. I could watch the recorded shows with trick play (REW, FF, etc), but Live TV gave me problems, took a while for trick play to work, or didn't work. Last night, it rebooted on its own. It finally ended on the green screen.

So this afternoon, went to Best buy and got a 10EARX, on sale for $80 (saved $5). I put my original WinMFS backup I had stored away on CD and restored to the new drive. Swapped out the Tivo drive with the new and the software was on 11.0h. Connected to Tivo and it did not download the guide data, instead it got the 11.0k.

This morning my Tivo HD with a 10EAVS drive kinda died. I could watch the recorded shows with trick play (REW, FF, etc), but Live TV gave me problems, took a while for trick play to work, or didn't work. Last night, it rebooted on its own. It finally ended on the green screen.

So this afternoon, went to Best buy and got a 10EARX, on sale for $80 (saved $5). I put my original WinMFS backup I had stored away on CD and restored to the new drive. Swapped out the Tivo drive with the new and the software was on 11.0h. Connected to Tivo and it did not download the guide data, instead it got the 11.0k.

There might be some way to put it on a USB stick if you can boot from one of those.

For Linux based iso you can use UNetbootin to create bootable USB stick. For Windows based iso you can use ISOtoUSB. Works well for most windows based iso.
For a DOS bootable USB use HP drive storage Utility.

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For Linux based iso you can use UNetbootin to create bootable USB stick. For Windows based iso you can use ISOtoUSB. Works well for most windows based iso.
For a DOS bootable USB use HP drive storage Utility.

WDIDLE3 needs a raw DOS environment, so the Linux- and Windows-based options won't be useful for it.

The original post for this thread is almost 6 years old, with an update in 2010, and there are 310 pages. Is there somewhere I can find a new list of drives I can buy to replace the internal drive on a Tivo HD, and are there current instructions? Thanks.

The original post for this thread is almost 6 years old, with an update in 2010, and there are 310 pages. Is there somewhere I can find a new list of drives I can buy to replace the internal drive on a Tivo HD, and are there current instructions? Thanks.

I have two THD's that I upgraded to 750GB when I first got them. One of them had the 750GB die about 18 months ago and I upgraded it to 1TB using MFS Live, retaining all the recordings from the previous drive. The other THD still has the ''original'' 750GB upgrade drive in it which seems to be going strong, but now that I've seen a little about what can be done with comer's JMFS, I'm really interested in upgrading it to 2TB with a WD20EURS going for $100 right now at Newegg and Amazon.

1) JMFS was written for upgrading a Premiere. Are there any issues with doing this upgrade on a TiVoHD?

2) Should I anticipate any issues in copying directly from the 750GB upgrade drive to the new 2TB drive? (I see mention in the post above of a 1TB "middleman" step and wondered if/what that gains over going straight from the 750GB)

3) It looks like I would use JMFS to do the bit-for-bit copy and then use WinMFS to do the Supersize. Do I have that about right?

Even though I've prefered to use the MFS Live CD with only the source and target HDDs attached in the past, I wouldn't actually NEED to use that method?

I have used both and it really is a wash. Since my computer normally has windows up I use WinMFS as it was handy and I could use my computer for other things while it is copying. JMFS leads you step by step to get the job done but unless you create a custom boot CD you won't be able to do much else with your computer.

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Even though I've prefered to use the MFS Live CD with only the source and target HDDs attached in the past, I wouldn't actually NEED to use that method?

My 1TB middleman method (which was born out of my desire to increase the size of the swap partition and keep all MFS Media partitions at or under 1TB) will not work with the MFS Live cd, because it always leaves a little extra space at the end which gets turned into an Apple Free partition, and jmfs sees that as a partition and copies it, which makes the partition it adds the 17th partition, and a TiVo can only have 16 per drive.

Also, I don't know if it'll let you break the "no bigger than 1.2TB" rule the way WinMFS will.